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Why is ethics important to you as a nurse? • Why is it important to have a code of ethics? • How can a code of ethics be helpful whether you’re a nurse in direct practice, research, education, policy or administration?
Cynda Rushton, Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics, explains the importance of understanding ethics in the nursing profession. This video is part of the Isabel Hampton Robb Nursing Ethics series. Go to http://nursing.jhu.edu/ethics for more.
This week we explore the final ethical theory in this unit: Aristotle’s virtue theory. Hank explains the Golden Mean, and how it exists as the midpoint between vices of excess and deficiency. We’ll also discuss moral exemplars, and introduce the concept of “eudaimonia.”
Our next stop in our tour of the ethical lay of the land is utilitarianism. With a little help from Batman, Hank explains the principle of utility, and the difference between act and rule utilitarianism.
Our next stop on our tour of ethics is Kant’s ethics. Today Hank explains hypothetical and categorical imperatives, the universalizability principle, autonomy, and what it means to treat people as ends-in-themselves, rather than as mere means.
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